~May 7, 2011~ 7-night Eastern Caribbean Cruise on the Magic!

[Lexa]

Yes...we got all we wanted...time to go to bed...good night

 

[mandymouse]

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone

Hi Mandy and Paul. Love your photo from the cruise. What days do you have your ressies for Palo? We have dinner, brunch and high tea. Do you live near Manchester? My good friends live there.

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We booked Brunch for the Sunday morning at 11.30am and Dinner for the last evening at 6pm, I really hope we get High Tea once onboard as I love that too

We live just under 2 hours away from Manchester, and fly from there to Orlando. Is your friend a DISer ?

Hi Mandy and Paul and welcome! I'm really looking forward to see you all at our meeting on May 7th at 3:00 pm in the Promenade Lounge on deck 3 aft.

We'll be there

Did everyone get what they wanted?

We got a ressie for Palo brunch on Thursday May 12th at 11:30! And we made our excursion reservation also! It's all exactly what we wanted.

So glad you were able to book everything you wanted

Yes...we got all we wanted...time to go to bed...good night

Yay ! what did you book ? Good night (or good morning, as it's 7.45am here)

 

[Minniemiss]

Did everyone get what they wanted?

We got a ressie for Palo brunch on Thursday May 12th at 11:30! And we made our excursion reservation also! It's all exactly what we wanted.

Congratulations!. It makes it seem so much closer, doesn't it?
We'll see you there. We have them at 10:30.

 

[Minniemiss]

Yes...we got all we wanted...time to go to bed...good night

Thanks for the warm welcome everyone



We booked Brunch for the Sunday morning at 11.30am and Dinner for the last evening at 6pm, I really hope we get High Tea once onboard as I love that too

We live just under 2 hours away from Manchester, and fly from there to Orlando. Is your friend a DISer ?



We'll be there



So glad you were able to book everything you wanted



Yay ! what did you book ? Good night (or good morning, as it's 7.45am here)

It's wonderful you all got what you were looking for. I wonder if this cruise is going to have many empty rooms?

Mandy, If you are unable to book a tea onboard, mention it to your brunch server on Sunday. They may be able to fit you in.

 

[mandymouse]

Mandy, If you are unable to book a tea onboard, mention it to your brunch server on Sunday. They may be able to fit you in.

Thanks for the advice, I'll give that a go

 

[Lexa]

Last night when booking I noticed all days at sea were mostly taken for Palo dinner, but as I was reading this board last month or so, I expected a lot more would be taken. All the excursions we wanted were open....we booked Tortola Dolphins (St. Thomas), Sea World Explorer (St. Maarten) and Stingrays at CC.

And we were moved from second dining time to main..YAY....we really hoped that will happen........we decided we will not do Palo this time....I'm sure we will come back cruising with DCL in the future

 

[Lexa]

I have another question....after we get off the ship on Saturday and get our car from rental place and till our flight time which is at 3:00PM from MCO, where to go, what to see? I heard a lot of people are going to the mall...any other ideas?

 

[MinnieMeg]

Congrats to all who were successful last night. It seems that we will be bumping into each other at Palo and on excursions.

Lexa - If you want more of a Disney fix, Downtown Disney is a possibility while waiting for your flight.

Meg

 

[jinia]

I haven't been on in forever and this cruise has grown! Looks like we won't be the only first time cruisers! I am super excited! I am signing up for the FE - wanted to make sure I understood. Individual item(or more) for each kid and adult or couple? If this isn't correct then let me know!!!

 

[Lexa]

hi jinia....seems there will be a lot of first time cruisers. i see you are from Missouri too

 

[mlmmom]

aaaghhh! I went online this morning to book stuff and i guess I didnt push save b/c I went back online this afteroon and lost everything! so now I am rethinking my reservations....

quick question, i noticed when I was booking excursions, they asked if i wanted to reserve babysitting, frankly i never thought of booking an excursion and leaving the kids on the boat in babyitting but when i spoke to the cruise line agent today she said people do it

what do you think? if i would it would be for a short 2 hour excursion ?

 

[MinnieMeg]

Welcome back Jinia - I have updated the FE list to include your party. The gifts can be for individuals or for cabins, it's up to you.

The updated list for the FE exchange is:

MinnieMeg (2) 2 adults

Whisky in a Vase (7) 2 adults, DD 7, DS 3, + 3 adults

Dianatlol (3) 2 adults, DD 10

MickeyManiacMom (5) 3 adults, DD 9, DS 7

Bibbidibobbidiboo07 (4) 2 adults, DD 4, DS 8mos.

Krispykreme97 (4) 2 adults, DD 9, DD 2

Lexa (4) 2 adults, DS 7, DD 6

FLUFFYCAT (4) 2 adults, DS 11, DS 7

Mlmmom (4) 2 adults, DS 3, DS 1

Jinia (3) 2 adults, DS 9

Nswift (4) 4 adults

GoDaddyGo (3) 2 adults, DD 5

Is anyone else interested? We have decided on a cutoff date of April 23, 2011.

Will everyone who is paticipating in FE please private message or email me with the following:
DISname
Cabin # (If you have more than 1 cabin please list seperately)
First names of everyone and ages and gender of children
I need this info to set up a delivery list. Some people may wish to personalize items with names, which is why I asked for everyone's name.


Please remember there is a meet planned for all DISers on May 7th at 3:00 pm in the Promenade Lounge on deck 3 aft.

Meg

 

[Minniemiss]

I have another question....after we get off the ship on Saturday and get our car from rental place and till our flight time which is at 3:00PM from MCO, where to go, what to see? I heard a lot of people are going to the mall...any other ideas?

We like going to Downtown Disney.

 

[Minniemiss]

I haven't been on in forever and this cruise has grown! Looks like we won't be the only first time cruisers! I am super excited! I am signing up for the FE - wanted to make sure I understood. Individual item(or more) for each kid and adult or couple? If this isn't correct then let me know!!!

What ever you would like to do is fine.
Some folks give one item per cabin, others like to give individual gifts to each person. Do what ever you feel comfortable doing.
You can also pick just one day or can do several days.

Heck I was on a cruise and one family did every day.

I'm not doing the FE this time, but in the past have given one gift per cabin.

 

[Lexa]

aaaghhh! I went online this morning to book stuff and i guess I didnt push save b/c I went back online this afteroon and lost everything! so now I am rethinking my reservations....

quick question, i noticed when I was booking excursions, they asked if i wanted to reserve babysitting, frankly i never thought of booking an excursion and leaving the kids on the boat in babyitting but when i spoke to the cruise line agent today she said people do it

what do you think? if i would it would be for a short 2 hour excursion ?

I did the same thing last night, didn't scroll all the way down and clicked save. But I did check it before I went to bed so i was able to catch my mistake. I hope you still got it what you wanted.

And about babysitting.....my DH wanted to take excursion and leave kids on the ship and I said no...thats just my opinion, but I'm known as overprotective mom.

 

[rusafee1183]

My TA said that there are 2 things that I need to print and take with me. I printed the cruise contract that I need to sign the bottom of, but she also said to print the credit card authorization form. Does anyone know where to find that??

 

[jinia]

MinnieMiss-Thanks for the info!
MinnieMeg-Thanks for adding us! Super excited!
Lexa-Hi! Well I am from Texas originally but in MO for a long time-near St.Louis!

Now I have to figure out what to do for the FE!

 

[Lexa]

MinnieMiss-Thanks for the info!
MinnieMeg-Thanks for adding us! Super excited!
Lexa-Hi! Well I am from Texas originally but in MO for a long time-near St.Louis!

Now I have to figure out what to do for the FE!

Well, I'm originally from overseas, moved to USA 8 years ago. Ended up in Lebanon. We are driving to St. Louis on 05.06. and fly to FL from there.

 

[Lexa]

My TA said that there are 2 things that I need to print and take with me. I printed the cruise contract that I need to sign the bottom of, but she also said to print the credit card authorization form. Does anyone know where to find that??

I just went through everything and I can't find it either.

What time did you all choose for Port Arrival Time?

 

[rusafee1183]

I just went through everything and I can't find it either.

What time did you all choose for Port Arrival Time?

Oh well.

Thanks for looking though!

We did 11:00-11:30. It was the first available time. I thought about waiting until later in the day so we wouldn't have to rush in the morning, but we're early birds anyway so either way it would feel like we were just waiting around all day to board.

At least this way when we board we can go straight over to grab some lunch and *hopefully* it won't be as crowded....